If I' getting your information correctally, yoy are takind the leads from tht vom and potting them on those of the capacitors and either getting a slowly decreasing resistance reading.Thas shows the wiring to the caps is not shoeted.You now should measure the voltage across the large caps and see if...

modrob: the main reason tormat models lose selection to one side is due to a loose connection on one of the contacts that slide on the long contacts on the tormat. there is a wire going to each one of them and you can reconnect them on your back. Give aech one a little pull and the pin should move d...

ont thing you can check is the needle seated completly in the cartridge? Did you try to play it before you recapped it? I'm not sure if thoes models had a motorized volume control if not, check the connections to it with the schematic and ohm out the pot. Make sure there are no jumpers missing. Chec...

assuming the diodes are still good and those guy were pretty hefty, hook a 40 watt light bulb in series with one oh the ac input wires. whwn you plug it in the light shoulg glow brightly. than ramove the caps one by one till the light gets dim (unpluging is when you pull the caps).the one you pulled...

it sounds like you have a short in the power supply That was not there before you replaced the caps. There is the remote possability that one of them is shorted or mislabled, but I would go over the board again looking for a solder bridge. The things can be hard to find, so clean the flux off the bo...

Joseph
What i was thinking about was the mechinacal stress due to the constant polorazation reversal caused by ac. I once had a couple of carbon filament edison bulbs and although the glass was darkened they still worked. Now bulbs seem to last at the very most as long as thier stated life.

since you are dealing with a sizable amount of water and dependability is needed, a mechanical bilge pump switch may be the best thing. It uses no ambient current and most of them cam handle a 10 amp load.

k7elp60 you say that by putting a large cap in parallel to a fw. rectifier and applying a load that matches it's capacity,that transformer's capacity needs to be upped by 60%? I do remember substituting a higher value cap in an old tube amp and the power transformer did fry, but i never attributed i...